Arbitrary Quote by Walt Whitman

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

— Leopold Schefer

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

— William Shakespeare

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

— Rita Dove

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

“The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a…

— Mary Stewart

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to…

— John Drinkwater

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge